PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rorschach Test, Hermann Rorschach, Abraham Maslow

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Ersin Asliturk

Document Summary

Personality: a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Two significant theories: freud"s psychoanalytic theory proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality, and the humanistic approach focused on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment. Psychodynamic theories: view human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts. Freud turned to free association when studying unexplained nervous disorders, to try to figure out the unconscious. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. He believed that following a chain of thought leading into the patient"s unconscious, where painful unconscious memories, often from childhood, would be retrieved. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.